The evidence for that statement is not merely his legal extortion scam as ACS:Law, where he sends spurious legal threats just large enough to be upsetting but too small to spend money on a lawyer for — but also the leak of a complete backup of ACS:Law’s email, which they made available for a short time on their website (thus demonstrating that they are not merely reprehensible, but incompetent). The 350 megabyte archive is, of course, on the Pirate Bay. FUCKING LOL.
There’s one great email from acslawsupervisor@googlemail.com to Crossley (Subject: Quantum of Damages Calculation) telling him that “establishing damages beyond the value of the gross profit of one copy of the work is problematic” and that “Barwinska might make nice headline reading but it has, in my opinion, about as much legal force as a Sun newspaper headline regarding the licentious behaviour of a D list celebrity.” Even their legal supervisor admits how dubious their claims are!
Also nice to see that Crossley has subscribed to updates from davidicke.com.
I am given to understand (I haven’t looked at it myself) that the entire archive is a tissue of LOLs. I wonder if anyone will look it over properly and thoroughly bury the fucker’s career.
Extract from a website regards the new power of the Information Commissioner. it may be worth contacting the IC tomorrrow if you feel that your personal details have been compromised as a result of this disgraceful lapse in security.
Data Protection Penalties
2010 will see a much more hostile regulatory environment around data protection and privacy!
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been given new statutory powers which see – with effect from 6 April 2010 – the introduction of new penalties, unlike any seen before, for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998. The ICO has also been granted new statutory powers to audit government departments.
The data protection regime in the UK has never looked so intimidating!
What penalties are available to the ICO?
* Fines of up to £500,000 for serious contraventions of the DPA;
* 25 Monetary Penalty Notices (MPNs) are expected to be issued each year by the ICO;
* Prison Sentences for deliberate or negligent customer data leaks by individuals within an organisation may also become available;
* DPA compliance costs are set to rise accordingly, for UK organisations.
The new statutory powers the ICO has just gained gives them the power to audit government departments without consent, thanks to the passing of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person :)
Broadbandgenie has a good summary here:
http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/news/20100925-acslaw-hit-by-email-leak
I recieved a letter from these jokers yesterday, accusing me of sharing some file I don’t even have. I have basically sent them a letter back telling them to 1)prove it, and 2) ram it up their arse.
I too have received a leter dated middle of November 2010 from Mr. Crossley. interestingly I genuinely did not download or upload “the Work” and nor do I use Bit Torrent. I have sent a slightly modified template letter of denial and have inferred the next letter to him will be a copy of the first reply. Thereafter I will not enter into any correspondence but I will copy as a minimum the SRA, ICO, Which, Lord Lucas and my MP any further correspondence he sends me. My current ISP who were clearly complicit in all of this will be dumped just as soon as I can sort out my domain transfer.
I hope to god this lo life gets what he deserves and that in particular the Ministry of Sound suffer for their significant part in all of this. Shame on all of them and the disrepute this brings upon the law.
Extract from a website regards the new power of the Information Commissioner. it may be worth contacting the IC tomorrrow if you feel that your personal details have been compromised as a result of this disgraceful lapse in security. Data Protection Penalties 2010 will see a much more hostile regulatory environment around data protection and privacy! The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been given new statutory powers which see – with effect from 6 April 2010 – the introduction of new penalties, unlike any seen before, for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998. The ICO has also been granted new statutory powers to audit government departments. The data protection regime in the UK has never looked so intimidating! What penalties are available to the ICO? * Fines of up to £500,000 for serious contraventions of the DPA; * 25 Monetary Penalty Notices (MPNs) are expected to be issued each year by the ICO; * Prison Sentences for deliberate or negligent customer data leaks by individuals within an organisation may also become available; * DPA compliance costs are set to rise accordingly, for UK organisations. The new statutory powers the ICO has just gained gives them the power to audit government departments without consent, thanks to the passing of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.